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U.S. Department of Labor/Maryland Department of Labor,

Licensing & Regulation

Career Pathways Institute2011-2012

Baltimore City &Baltimore County

Maryland Legislature & Governor

Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing & Regulation

EARN Legislation, April 2013

THE PURPOSE OF THE MARYLAND EARN PROGRAM IS TO CREATE INDUSTRY–LED

PARTNERSHIPS TO ADVANCE THE SKILLS OF THE STATE’S WORKFORCE, GROW THE

STATE’S ECONOMY, AND INCREASE SUSTAINABLE EMPLOYMENT FOR WORKING

FAMILIES.

Increasing Automation – Need Skills

Global Competition – Need Productivity

Aging Workforce – Need New Workers

Short Product Lifecycles– Rapid Retraining

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Employer Perspective on Why Employers Care About Desperately Need Workforce Development

1972 – HP 35 Pocket Calculator

1976 – Cincinnati Milacron leads CNC Production

1957 – Ross and Pople at MIT g-code & APL Programming Language

1952 – John Parsons Patent for CNC, patent number 2,820,187

1986 – Chuck Hull patents Sereolithography U.S. Patent 4,575,330

1980 – Japan CNC production surpasses Germany

1979 – German CNC production surpasses U.S.

Workforce-Technology Evolution

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1961 – Integrated Circuit Patent Award

2007 – I Phone Introduced

201? – Semantic web routine machine-to-machine disparate data transfers

1950 – MIT Servo lab uses Punch Tape with a milling machine

2003 – NIST EMC2 Open Source Code

1982 – AutoCAD First Release

1975 – Microsoft Founded

1965 – DEC PDP-8 microcomputer

1998 – Google Founded

200,000 Years of Manufacturing Labor

2010 - DARPA crowd sourced design experiments2009 – China Leads Machine Tool Production

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Baltimore County & CityManufacturing Career Pathway

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Elementary & Middle Schools

High Schools

Community Colleges

Universities

Greater student & parent awareness of manufacturing career options

Revamp high school VOTECH to include advanced manufacturing technology for tomorrow’s highly paid workers

Skills training for today & tomorrow’s manufacturing workforce

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Why to employers need to be at the table? partners

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. Henry Ford

Collaboration Required

• Identify gaps in workforce• Train for Jobs of tomorrow

not of yesterday – industry input

• Internships and apprenticeship placements

• Hiring decisions are tied to job skills – be responsive to employers

• Financial links- payment for training

Examples

One Company’s EARN Conclusions• Benefits

– Increased communication between workforce development and hiring communities

– Training responsive to industry changing needs• Real-time curricula updates from hiring organizations• Business cycle changes are reflected in training priorities

– Industry participation leads to greater hiring– Bipartisan support when programs succeed

• Challenges– Harder to organize – diverse participants and objectives– Harder to manage – new participants don’t understand workforce metrics,

processes, and reporting needs– If not appropriately organized, can leave some groups unserved– Community colleges can be financially hurt hurt if they don’t engage

Dynamic leadership is essential – Proscriptive approaches are unlikely to succeed